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Comprehensive Exam

 

 

A.  Fill in the blank with the correct word:  1 point each  (Each word is used only once)

 

 


blind

contradicts

control

diameter 

facts

generations

hypothesis

lead

simple

variable

ancestor

Archaeology

real

intermediate

known age

geological

Principle

mudflows

radiometric

rocks

oxygen

atom

organelles

Receptors 

mycelium

Photosynthesis

vacuole

DNA

molecule

adenine

large intestine

saliva

known

Digestion

bolus

larynx

bile

esophagus

pancreas

vitamin

 

 


  1.  A counter-example is an example that __________ a scientific conclusion.

 

  2.  A/An _____________ is the simplest unit of matter in Creation.

 

  3.  A/An ____________ is an educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.

 

  4.  Metabolism requires food and ____________.

 

  5.  Science is a branch of study dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable __________ in order to formulate general laws about the natural world.

 

  6.  ______________ is the process by which a plant uses energy of sunlight and certain chemicals to make its own food.

 

  7.  ____________ studies are experiments in which the participants do not know whether or not they are a part of the control group.

 

  8.  Prokaryotic cells have no ____________.

 

  9.  Scientific laws are theories that have been tested by and are consistent with ____________ of data.

 

10.  Only plant cells have a cell wall and a large central ______________.

 

11.  The age of an artifact, as determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a work of history, is referred to as its ___________ _________.

 

12.  The _______________ produces several digestive juices and a base to neutralize the stomach acid.

 

13.  Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item is termed _____________ dating.

 

14.  The gall bladder concentrates __________ and squirts it into the chyme as the chyme enters the small intestine.

 

15.  Geology is the study of earth's history as revealed in the __________ that make up the earth.

 

16.  The appendix is a part of the digestive system but not the digestive tract.  It has no __________ function.

 

17.  The geological column is not really evidence for evolution because it is not ____________.

 

18.  A _______________ is a chemical substance essential for the normal working of the human body.

 

19.  The _______________ column is a theoretical picture in which layers of rock from around the world are meshed together into a single, unbroken record of earth's past.

 

20.  The part of the digestive system and digestive tract that pushes food down into the stomach is called the _______________.

 

21.  All life contains ______________.

 

22.  The variable or part of the experiment to which all others can be compared is called the ____________.

 

23.  ____________ are special structures or chemicals that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their surroundings.

 

24.  The experimental ____________ is the aspect of an experiment that does change during the course of the experiment.

 

25.  Thymine links to ______________ and guanine to cytosine.

 

26.  A/An ____________ machine is a device that reduces the amount of force needed to perform a task or change the direction of a force.

 

27.  Two or more atoms linked together to make a substance with unique properties is called a/an _____________.

 

28.  Circumference is the distance around a circle, equal to 3.1415 time the circle's ______________.

 

29.  The ______________ is actually the main part of the mushroom.

 

30.  Alchemists believe that ___________ can be transformed into gold.

 

31.  ________________ is the process by which an organism breaks down its food into small units which can be absorbed.

 

32.  _______________ is the study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.

 

33.  The tongue moves the food around in the mouth to form a _______________.

 

34.  The ___________ of Superposition says that when artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts.

 

35.  The _______  ___________  consolidates undigested food, absorbs water from it, and turns the resulting waste into feces.

 

36.  A theory which states that all life on this earth has a single, common ____________ that existed a long time ago is referred to as The Theory of Evolution.

 

37.  The __________ is not part of the digestive system.

 

38.  The fossil record contains no fossils that are undeniable _____________ links.

 

39.  The salivary glands produce _______________, which helps to partially digest and lubricate food.

 

40.   The Mt. St. Helens eruption and a major flood would both have ____________ in common.

 

B. True or False - indicate which of the following are true (T) or false (F):  1 point each 

 

______  41.  Gregor Mendel determined how traits are passed during reproduction.

 

______  42.  A carnivore is a consumer that eats producers exclusively.

 

______  43.  Subjective data deals with measurable qualities and not the opinions of people.

 

______  44.  Glucose is a disaccharide.

 

______  45.  An electric ice cream maker is an example of technology.

 

______  46.  Fats come in two types: blue fats and yellow fats.

 

______  47.  The lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the automobile, and the inclined plane are all examples of simple machines.

 

______  48.  Cellular energy production occurs mainly in the mitochondrion.

 

______  49.  Sir Isaac Newton is considered to be the single greatest scientist of all time.

 

______  50.   An algae is an example of a consumer.

 

______  51.  When plants and animals die, the most likely thing that will happen is that they will become fossilized.

 

______  52.   The lymphatic system is made up of lymph vessels and Holland nodes.

 

______  53.  Fossil records are usually found in sedimentary rock. 

 

______  54.  Vaccines do little good in providing a person with immunity to viral infections.

 

______  55.  1,000,000 species of plants and animals have gone extinct in the last 400 years.

 

______  56.  The lymph nodes have T-cells, B-cells, and macrophages.

 

______  57.  Human bones make up 95% of the fossil record.

 

______  58.  The thyroid gland is the master gland of the body.

 

______  59.  The icicle-like structures which hang down from the ceiling of a caven are called stalactites.

 

______  60.  The urinary system regulates water balance and chemical levels in the body.

 

______  61.  Information required by living things is stored in the nucleotides of the DNA.

 

______  62.  Applied science is motivated by curiosity but does not care if the knowledge gained is useful.

 

______  63.  The main thing that macronutrients provide is energy.

 

______  64.  Aristotle developed the idea of spontaneous generation.

 

______  65.  A mushroom is in kingdom Monera and is, therefore, a decomposer.

 

______  66.  Charles Darwin demonstrated the First Law of Thermodynamics.

 

______  67.  Ectothermic animals are slower on cold days.

 

______  68.  Force is the push or pull that changes the motion of an object.

 

______  69.  The body prefers to burn proteins, then carbohydrates, then fats.

 

______  70. Science is not a means by which something can be proven.

 

______  71.   The endocrine system controls various functions by releasing enzymes.

 

______  72.  The Bible does not pass the internal, external, or bibliographic test.

 

______  73.   Memory B-cells give the lymphatic system a memory of past infections. 

 

______  74.  Fossils found in one layer of stratified rock can be considerably different than the fossils found in another layer of the same stratified rock.

 

______  75.  The cleaned blood leaves the kidney via the renal artery.

 

______  76.  Large parts of the sediments carried by rivers end up in the river's delta.

 

______  77.  Tears are produced in the lacrimal glands, and they clean the eye of contaminants and provide a chemical relief for sadness.

 

______  78.  Sedimentary rock is formed from molten rock, called magma

 

______  79.  The contraction of certain muscles squeezes the lymph nodes, pumping blood throughout the body.

 

______  80.  A carbonate residue has a film residue of the original creature; in an impression, the film residue is completely gone. 

 

C.  Multiple Choice - Select the best possible answer for the following:  1 point each 

 

81.  What is the correct term for an experiment in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who the control group is?

 

a.  a double-blind study                                    

b.  a Dr. Wile's invention 

c.  a bad idea              

d.  a two-fold control study

 

82.  Which is not true of keratinization?

 

a.  It kills cells.

b.  It softens living cells.

c.  Hair and nails are made by this process

d.  It is the process that is used to make the outer layer of the epidermis.

 

83.  For what was Imhotep famous?

 

a.  atomic

b.  basketball playing

c.  medical practices

d.  energy extraction

 

84.  The human superstructure is made up of

 

a.  the skeleton

b.  the muscles

c.  the skin

d.  all the above

 

85.  Who wrote the book The Origins of Species?

 

a.  John Dalton              

b.  Charles Darwin

c.  Sir Isaac Newton           

d.  Robert Boyle

 

86.  Which kingdom contains organisms made up of several eukaryotic cells, having specialized structures, and makes it own food? 

 

a.  Monera

b.  Protista

c..  Fungi

d.  Plantae

 

87.  If a person wanted to learn about the history of life other than human life, that person would use

 

a.  Bacteriology

b.  Paleontology

c.  Archaeology

d.  Smurfology

 

88.  Which kingdom contains the algae and protozoa?     

 

a.  Protista

b.  Plantae

c.  Monera

d.  Fungi

 

89.  From what substance is amber derived?

 

a.  resin

b.  water

c.  carbon

d.  animal remains

 

90.  In which kingdom would one find creatures that have several eukaryotic cells, do not make their own food, and often eat other living organisms?

 

a.  Animalia

b.  Plantae

c.  Monera

d.  Fungi

 

91.  Two or more organisms living together so that each benefits from the other is called

 

a.  communism

b.  parasitism

c.  symbiosis

d.  rosenosis

 

92.  Performing tests to confirm the hypothesis is characteristic of the _____________ step of the scientific method.  

 

a.  theory                      

b.  observation                      

c.  experiment                     

d.  law

 

93.  Collagen makes the bones   

 

a.  flexible

b.  hard

c.  strong

d.  none of the above

 

94.  An astronomer viewing a new light in sky is an example of

 

a.  an hypothesis

b.  theory

c.  an experiment

d.  an observation

 

95.  Which of the following are not vertebrates?

 

a.  earthworms

b.  dogs

c.  chickens

d.  dinosaurs

 

96.  The vast majority of the fossil record is made up of

 

a.  dinosaur bones

b.  plant remains

c.  insects encased in amber

d.  clams and other hard-shelled creatures

 

97.  Which of the kingdoms contain organisms that generally have several eukaryotic cells and eat only dead organisms?

 

a.  Animalia

b.  Plantae

c.  Fungi

d.  Monera

 

98.  In which test of documents is Aristotle's dictum used?

 

a.  the internal test

b.  the external test

c.  the bibliographic test

d.  the Rosenoff test

 

99.  Which kingdom has organisms that have only single, prokaryotic cells and no membrane-bound organelles?  

 

a.  Monera

b.  Animalia

c.  Protista

d.  Fungi

 

100.  Catastrophists believe

 

a.  in Noah's flood

b.  the depth, speed, and direction of flood waters determined the type of rock formed

c.  different kinds of things being trapped during different stages of the flood account for stratification of the fossil layer

d.  all the above

 

 

 

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